diff --git a/textproc/libunibreak/Makefile b/textproc/libunibreak/Makefile
index 1c22d77167e5..361524944f58 100644
--- a/textproc/libunibreak/Makefile
+++ b/textproc/libunibreak/Makefile
@@ -1,20 +1,24 @@
 PORTNAME=	libunibreak
-PORTVERSION=	5.1
+DISTVERSION=	6.1
 PORTEPOCH=	1
 CATEGORIES=	textproc
-MASTER_SITES=	https://github.com/adah1972/${PORTNAME}/releases/download/${PORTNAME}_${PORTVERSION:C/\./_/}/
+MASTER_SITES=	https://github.com/adah1972/${PORTNAME}/releases/download/${PORTNAME}_${DISTVERSION:C/\./_/}/
 
 MAINTAINER=	kde@FreeBSD.org
 COMMENT=	Implementation of the line and word breaking algorithm for Unicode
 WWW=		https://vimgadgets.sourceforge.net/libunibreak/
 
 LICENSE=	ZLIB
 LICENSE_FILE=	${WRKSRC}/LICENCE
 
 USES=		libtool pathfix
+
 GNU_CONFIGURE=	yes
-INSTALL_TARGET=	install-strip
 USE_LDCONFIG=	yes
+
+INSTALL_TARGET=	install-strip
+TEST_TARGET=	check
+
 MAKE_ARGS=	LN_S="${INSTALL_DATA}"
 
 .include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/textproc/libunibreak/distinfo b/textproc/libunibreak/distinfo
index 00c39142aca7..716a6eb31c01 100644
--- a/textproc/libunibreak/distinfo
+++ b/textproc/libunibreak/distinfo
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-TIMESTAMP = 1678608217
-SHA256 (libunibreak-5.1.tar.gz) = dd1a92d4c5646aa0e457ff41d89812ec5243863be6c20bbcb5ee380f3dd78377
-SIZE (libunibreak-5.1.tar.gz) = 658914
+TIMESTAMP = 1709408035
+SHA256 (libunibreak-6.1.tar.gz) = cc4de0099cf7ff05005ceabff4afed4c582a736abc38033e70fdac86335ce93f
+SIZE (libunibreak-6.1.tar.gz) = 855733
diff --git a/textproc/libunibreak/pkg-plist b/textproc/libunibreak/pkg-plist
index f827871cc782..c91534e36b0f 100644
--- a/textproc/libunibreak/pkg-plist
+++ b/textproc/libunibreak/pkg-plist
@@ -1,11 +1,12 @@
+include/eastasianwidthdef.h
 include/graphemebreak.h
 include/linebreak.h
 include/linebreakdef.h
 include/unibreakbase.h
 include/unibreakdef.h
 include/wordbreak.h
 lib/libunibreak.a
 lib/libunibreak.so
-lib/libunibreak.so.5
-lib/libunibreak.so.5.0.1
+lib/libunibreak.so.6
+lib/libunibreak.so.6.0.1
 libdata/pkgconfig/libunibreak.pc